David French

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3,314 appearances 17 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 19 Sep

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I need an age waiver, and I want to join the JAG Corps as a lawyer.

So I wanted to be an Army lawyer.

And they had no idea that

what to do with me.

So they put me, they said, go to Fort Dix in New Jersey, get a physical, which I passed by the skin of my teeth.

And then I had to just kind of Google how to get an age waiver and how to do this.

And I followed the steps.

And then about six months later, I was in Fort Lee in Virginia in the summer of 2006.

And

2007, I finished my legal training.

And then at the very end of 2007 in November, I deployed to Iraq for almost a year with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.

I was with a 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.

We were detached from the main regiment and kind of put on our own in eastern Diyala province.

near the Iranian border and were given a really, really challenging assignment.

We were plopped in the middle of one of the last and largest Al-Qaeda strongholds in the country.

And this is at the height of the surge at the end of 07 and beginning of 08, and basically had to fight our way out.

And so we had our first enemy contact as a unit in late November of 07.

And then we had either daily or near daily enemy contact

Before, gosh, I would say until August is when it really began to ease off.

And it was a tough, hard deployment.

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